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Keurig Green Mountain is opening a new office in Lausanne, Switzerland — a city that has become a worldwide center of coffee trading — in anticipation of expanding globally.

"As part of this journey to establish the necessary infrastructure to allow us to scale on a global basis we have recently formed a new corporate entity in Switzerland," said Sandy Yusen, a Keurig spokeswoman.

Yusen said the new entity, Keurig Trading GmbH, is expected to be operational in the spring. The company is scouting for a location now.

"Lausanne has become a primary and well-established hub of coffee trading," Yusen said. "This gives us a presence and foothold in a community where significant coffee business is taking place."

"We have a group of team members who are currently based in the United States who will be positioned in Switzerland," Yusen said.

Those team members will include Lindsey Bolger, Keurig's vice president of coffee sourcing and excellence. Yusen declined to say how many employees would move to Switzerland, but said Keurig's commitment to Vermont remains unchanged.

"What I can say is that Vermont, and Waterbury in particular, will remain a hub of coffee expertise for North America," she said. "We're committed to our roots here in Vermont and Waterbury, and we're actually expanding our Waterbury facilities."

Yusen said in the past few months Keurig has invested more than $9 million in its Waterbury campus, purchasing the building that houses the company's early production center, coffee lab and office space, from Pilgrim Partnership LLC, as well as other properties. Keurig also still leases a significant amount of space in Waterbury and Waterbury Center.

Yusen said Keurig has about 6,600 employees in North America, with about one-third of those employees in Vermont.

Lindsey Bolger is Keurig's vice president of coffee sourcing and excellence. Her name was misspelled in an earlier online version.

Contact Dan D'Ambrosio at 660-1841 or ddambrosio@freepressmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/DanDambrosioVT.